I.Parliamentarian
Gwen Walker called the meeting to order at 1:41 p.m. No guests were
introduced.

II.Approval of
Minutes:(MSCOROZCO/SCUDERI) TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF MARCH 3, 2005

III.Officer’s Reports

A.President
(Angela Echeverri)

1.Recognition
of newly tenured faculty members: Angela introduced, said a few words
about, and presented certificates to all of the newly tenured faculty.

a.The following faculty received their tenure
on July 1, 2004:

Michael Climo, Cindy Cooper, Ife
Keller, Gloria Estrada, &

Gary Prostack

b.The
following faculty will receive their tenure on July 1, 2005:

Donna Ayers, Vilma Bernal, Roxann
Dalrymple, Carolyn Daly,

Lilamani DaSilva, Ruthie Grant, Barbara
Kerwin, Abdo Malke,

Deborah Paulson, & Said
Pazarandi

Angela will check on June Wada’s
date of tenure.

2.Status
of LAMC budget and enrollment targets: She reported that we would lose some
funds from non-credit, but to compensate there would be some money for unfunded
credit FTES. Whatever FTES we capture in the Summer will be funded and added to
our base.Clive asked about our
resolution for outreach and recruitment. The President's reply was that this was
under counseling. Clive said that some faculty are doing recruitment, but they
are not involving counseling. Angela reminded us that Dean Soto was out sick
and thus, she had been unable to talk to her about this. There was a suggestion
to use some grant money for recruitment. Although the college received a TRIO
grant, only a small portion of that money can be used for recruitment and the
recruitment can only be specific to the grant. Bonnie Sherman was worried about
the schedule of classes as the summer schedule was not out yet. Angela heard
that it would be out the first week of May. Bonnie suggested that faculty post
offerings on the walls before the schedule comes out. Eloise Cantrell stated
that there were errors in galleys when they were returned. Angela will bring
this back to Academic Affairs and to the President.

3.Update
on Classified Transfers: Angela distributed the written response from Dr.
Barrera to our motion at last senate meeting. Resolved: that
the College President seek, from the District, absolution of the current
projected deficit of approximately $2,000,000,

And, that no, voluntary (unless REPLACED) OR involuntary classified
transfers/LAYOFFS TAKE place until there is an examination of the budget by the
District, Academic Senate, and AFT.

The gist of the
reply was that because she followed an intense process, she intends to go
forward with the transfers and that “request for absolution of deficits can
only be made at the conclusion of the fiscal year during which the deficit
occurred. Further, the request must be made based on the recommendation of the
college’s shared governance committee.” Interestingly, the projected deficit
seems to be more like $800,00 now. There was much concern about the impending
impact of the loss of valuable classified staff on the instructional program in
areas such as tech support.

B.Treasurer(Margie Long): There was no report as the
treasurer was not present.

IV.Public Address:

A.Gwen Walker and
Vilma Bernal reported on the upcoming “Springfest,” which is scheduled for
Saturday, April 16. The purpose is to raise money for student scholarships.
There will be representatives from wineries, breweries, and Culinary Arts will
provide a great gourmet menu. The price is $25 for staff and students and $50
for anybody else. Gwen is selling tickets.

B.John Orozco
expressed concern over the reception for the army recruiters that were on
campus a few weeks ago. He was shocked to learn that some teachers asked them
not to speak to their students. “Whether you agree or not about the war,” he
said, “they have the right to speak to students.”

C.Bonnie Sherman
brought up concern about multiple sclerosis as this disease has affected
several members of her family. There will be a Walk to raise money for this
cause at 7:30 a.m. next Sunday at the Coliseum. The goal is to raise 1.7
million dollars. Anyone who would like to contribute can give her a check made
out to Multiple Sclerosis.

D.Sandi
Lampert announced that there would be three national
videoconferences given by the Virginia Geriatric Education Center at the
Virginia Commonwealth University and theVeterans Administration. The 3 part program will be as follows: 4/12, Overview &
prevention, 4/17 Assessment & Diagnosis, 4/26 Treatment. The videos will be
from 10:00 to 11:00 with question & answers from 11:00 to 12:00.There will be free CEU credit provided by the VA & flex
credit from Staff Development for faculty. People can come to one or all of the
presentations. Students are welcome as well.

E.Ruthie Grant
wanted to clear up some rumors that have been going around. She heard that the
reason Vice President, Farmer was leaving was that the senate had voted for it.
Angela replied that that there had not been any suchsenate action, but rather that President Barrera unilaterally
made the decision to reassign him as of July 1 to a teaching position. The
senate made no recommendations whatsoever about him. Although Angela asked,
Barrera did not tell her the reason(s) for the reassignment.

V.Reports of Senate Committee Meetings

A.Curriculum:
(Leslie Foster) As Leslie could not attend the meeting, Sonia Soto-Bair handed
out a written report: The committee voted to remove the bottom line of many
course descriptions that read: “Acceptable for credit: UCLA, CSUN.” There were
also reminders of these deadlines.

1.April
8th is the last day to submit courses for the Spring 2006
schedule and for validating current prerequisites.

2.On April 19th there will be another
curriculum workshop at 1:30 in LRC 234 devoted to completing the forms for
Non-Credit courses.

3.In April the CSU-GE advising form will be reviewed and
updated by a CSU representative and the Articulation Officer. Any courses not
meeting requirements or needing updating will have until November 4thto do the revisions and submit them to the
Curriculum Committee.

Maria Fenyes expressed concern over asking
adjunct faculty to update courses with no compensation.Sandi Lampert suggested using professional
development money, but was not sure if there were any funds. Mike Climo
suggested that adjunct faculty be paid for ten hours as a professional expert
to update course outline when there are no full-time faculty in the discipline.
Maria said that there were two issues(1) new courses and (2) redoing existing courses. She informed us that
since the 60% law has been overruled for adjuncts, they could be paid
additionally for extra work.Eloise was
concerned that one full-time faculty member might get the brunt of the work for
the whole discipline. She thinks full-time faculty should also be compensated.
Perhaps we could suggest putting something into the contract that would
compensate both adjunct and full-time faculty. This will be noticed for action
in May.

B.District
Academic Senate (Newman): Dale reported that Joe Perret from Southwest
approached the DAS on setting up a District info tech committee. This will be
discussed further at the next executive meeting. Student Trustee, Elizabeth
Saldivar,asked for support in setting
up an annual college day/open house on each of the campuses. The body voted to
look into this. Mike Climo, Mission District Senator, volunteered to help and
to set up a sub committee here on campus. Myriam Mekelburg, Cindy Cooper and
Lil DeSilva volunteered. Several senate presidents expressed concern over the
lack of shared governance on other campuses in the selection of acting
administrators as well as the creation of positions.

C.EPAC(Sonia Soto-Bair) EPAC met on March 29th
at Trade. The following topics were addressed:

4.Direct Sale of Textbooks and other instructional material
by instructors: Tabled

VI.Old Business

A.Full-time
Faculty Hiring (Echeverri): President Barrera has agreed to hire one
replacement faculty and one new faculty. Jan Silver was concerned that the lack
of an application at this time might affect requests in the future.This will not be the case.

B.Instructional
Equipment Sub-committee: (Barbato): Louise reported that the committee met
yesterday to come up with a plan to divide up the $120,000 of Instruction
Equipment funds budgeted for the faculty this year. Over 389 thousand dollars
in requests came in. The committee endeavored to make sure that all requests
followed the guidelines and also tried to divide the money in an equitable
manner to all the departments. Each department or unit will get a letter
stating the amount of money allocated along with instructions on how to place
the orders. If any departments want to reorganize the allotment, they need to
send a request to the committee. As Block Grant money carries over from year to
year, there is no imminent deadline to spend the funds.

C.Requests
to Move Disciplines (Echeverri): Two requests were submitted; Angela stated
that we plan to address them in the near future.

D.Proposed
Math/English Graduation Requirement Changes (Echeverri)—The State Academic
Senate will be voting on raising the graduation requirements for English and
Math up one levelthis Saturday. Angela
feels that they will probably pass. She asked for direction on how she should vote.
from faculty. John Orozco thinks 101 and 102 should also be required. Eloise
spoke on the effect this would have on our students in vocational disciplines.
As it is now, some have to take math three times; they do not need any further
math fortheir jobs. English 28 also is
sufficient. She feels that itis
punitive to some students, especially those for whom English is not their first
language. On the other hand, if they want to transfer, then they need the higher
levels. Rick Scuderi agrees with Eloise. We try to ensure thatstudents can get AA degree within a
reasonable time. In addition, financial aid and EOPS do not help students
beyond 72 units. Students will thus,run
out of units andnot get their AA.In a show of hands there were 5 votes to
raise Math and 14 to leave it alone. There were 7 votes to raise English and 12
to leave it where it is. Angela will vote against both measures.

E.Educational
Master Plan Revisions (Echeverri): This was postponed for the next meeting.

F.Senate
Elections (Newman):Dale reported
that nominations were open for senate officers, district senators, department
senators, and senators-at-large. A list of the nominations will be distributed
in mailboxes on Thursday, April 14th. The elections are scheduled
for Wednesday April 20th and Thursday, April 21st. The
ballot box will be at the information desk near the learning center in the LRC.
Ballots will be available there.

VII.New Business

Student
Learning Outcomes (Paulsen): Deborah Paulsen reported on a pilot program
for developing learning outcomes as part of Institutional Effectiveness. She
presented a model for Art and Multimedia as an example. In addition, her
handout included a general description of how to develop discipline specific
learning outcomes, some valuable websites, a copy of the Mission General
Education Student Learning Outcomes as prepared by the Institutional
Effectiveness committee, and a written communication skills rubric from a
workshop and one that she prepared.